Philosophy as Medicine: The Buddha and Socrates | Bhante Dr. Gangodawila Chandima and Professor Michael Griffin

 

Dear Dhamma Friends,

Stay tuned for Tuesday evening as we continue with our Dhammapariyesanā series #46.

Please join the host Bhante Dr. Chandima to interview Professor Michael Griffin on the philosophical commonalities between the Buddha and Socrates. These commonalities include medical metaphors, self-knowledge, reflection, ontology, and so on.

Dr. Michael Griffin is Associate Professor of Greek Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where his research focused on Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy in the ancient Mediterranean world. Dr. Griffin is the author of three books on logic and ethics in the Greek Platonist tradition, Aristotle’s Categories in the Early Roman Empire (Oxford, 2015) and Olympiodorus of Alexandria on Plato’s Alcibiades (Bloomsbury, 2014, 2016), and is co-director of the Ancient Commentators project, which publishes previously untranslated works of Ancient Greek and Latin philosophy, science, and medicine from late antiquity. His personal website is michaeljamesgriffin.com.

Dr. Griffin posts regularly online about Ancient Greek philosophy, including Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato, and the Neoplatonists. You can find his series of educational videos in progress on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/delphicphilosophy, and sign up for discussions and online readings at www.DelphicPhilosophy.com.

See you at 12.00pm (Vancouver, Canada). (3.00pm EST)

May you be well and happy!
Patisota Team